The First Settlers/ Day 1 Of The Summer Learning Journey.

Hello Blogging World, As you all know we have started the holidays but my school still has one day left. Due to that Waikowhai Primary and the Ako Hiko Area have started the Summer Learning Journey. If you didn't see my last blog about this then here is some basic and quick information, The summer learning journey is a program that keeps your knowledge up through the school holidays. This times theme is... Drumroll.... Time Tavel! We are doing 1800 - 1870 so not very long but this only last four weeks (A month). 

As part of today, we read one of the many stories from Maui, Maui and the Gaint Fish. We need to tell three facts that we knew or learned from the story.

I have read many of the Maui stories with my teacher and my class but I cant share all of them. My favorite one would probably Be Maui and the sun because it showed some very important time and it made me think "Hmm, so are daylight saving when he is pushed down harder (to the ground) or when he free himself a little bit". Also to celebrate the book we did some art and the middle school did a big painting of Maui holding down the sun which stayed in the corridor for a while. If you haven't read you should, it can also be found here. Here is my work!

• The FIsh that Maui caught has been made to a remarkable landscape that is part of New Zealand.
• Maui Never got to go fishing with his brother because his brother thought that he wasn't good and they would make fun of him.
• When Maui Made it onto the boat and they where far enough Maui jumped out of his hiding spot, while this was happening again his brothers were making fun of him. Soon enough Maui couldn't take the waves of laughter and with anger, he punched his nose, covering the blood all around his fish hook. 

If you want to learn more about this story click here 

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Zooming Round The Track!

Hello blogging world, this Monday we had a great last week of school. To blast off the week we had a amazing wheels day! In this we got to bring our wheels to school, Go down the slip'n slide, Go in the pool and play some games with  the teachers. We dressed in mufti and donated a gold coin. As for the seniors we got spilt into three groups for the rotation. This was another very successful fun day. Here are some photos.

The Seniors went in the pool/water 

slide first and it was super fun sliding down the slip'n slide. I got to slide down with Room Hauraki  teacher and when I went on my tummy at the bottom the water slide was used as a ramp and I lunged into the air. In the pool though it wasn't as fun because we just splashed boys with water then they would do it back. It was really fun when we went to do the wheels because I rode my roller blades and got to ride one of my friends bike with my other friends. I competed in the race on the bike and I came 3rd out 4 people but then I didn't know where we where biking so I basically lost. Just before getting onto our wheels we played some games with the teachers there was... Capture the flap, T-ball and just relaxing 

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Dance and Music!

Hello blogging world. This year is my last year at primary and I am really sad. Today I am sharing something I really loved about this year it was when we did Dance and Music. In this we got spilt up into three groups and then from that three group we had to pick a group of students to dance with. We first went onto a slideshow one of the teacher prepared and on there was different dances, different moves and two songs. There was a slow song and there was a move upbeat tune to the other songs. We had to pick one of the songs and make a dance to it. We had 3 weeks to practice until we had to preform in front of every group. If you were one of the top five you could have done your dance in assembly. Here is my groups dance! (I am sorry if you cant view it)

In this dance i really like doing the dance with my group. We made it to the assembly but we made a lot of mistakes. The easy part was preforming in front of everybody because we were very confident with out dance but coming up with the moves were really hard because we didn't know what to do.

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Lets Think About Our Gala Day

Hello blogging world, in the weekend Waikowhai Primary School ad there very first Gala day. Every class made a product and had to learn a cultural dance. As I said Manukau made paper. After the day we did some thinking hats to describe the positives, negatives, our feelings and what we would change. In the Gala day we had bouncy castles, food, products, dances and games. Here is my slideshow to show my thinking about the day.

I really enjoyed the day. The slide was hard because at times I wrote the sames things on the slides. The easy part was thinking about the red and whites hats but the-hard bit was the green and blue hats because I wrote the sames on each slide. I have learnt that it was really hard to be creative with the green and blue hat. Maybe next time I will add more photos and more detail about the day. Over all the day was great I am exited to come back next year!

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Summer holiday learning: Lets go to a new country

Hello blogging world. Today in class the whole of Te Waka Ako have deiced to take part in the Summer Learning Journey. In this program the main idea is to keep your learning up as it was the end of last year. As the program starts on the 18th of December, we are going back to work on an old one. Each day we will get three activity but you don't need to do all of them that day, you can always just go back. I have deiced to complete the Summer 2016 - 2017. From the 18th of December you will see lots of blogs post relating to this Summers program.

Today I am travelling around the world. We had to pick a place we wanted to travel to and give at least 2 reasons of why you wanted to go there. I have picked England. As England is a very far way to go the temperatures are even and in the winter it snows. I would love to see Buckingham Palace and maybe even meet the royal family. I would love to see or even maybe go on the London eye too. The sights are so pretty there and on the list that we got to pick out of (Canada, Japan, Australia, Chile, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia and United Arab Eremite) that could speak English so I know what they are saying. It would be so cool to have a cup of tea in England... Where t was made.

Overall I think England is a great pick I cant wait to "Travel" there. I think that I would really enjoy going there when I am older. 

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We Made Paper!

Hello blogging world since last term we had been making paper to sell at our Celebration day/ Gala day. We have also doing this to reduce the use of cutting down trees to make new paper, instead you can recycle the paper you used. With the paper we are making Christmas cards. Over this period of time I have learnt how to make paper and why this problem of the trees is so bad now since 5 years ago. Hauraki is making Tote bag and Waitemata is making soap (They are the two other classes in Te Waka Ako)

If you were wondering how to make paper heres how.

Materials

• Old clothes/ A art shirt
•   Deckle/ Mould/ Screen (Paper making set)
• Hot water
• Bucket
• Potato masher/ egg beater
• A big container 
• Scissors  (If wanted)
• Used paper
• Cloth
• Sponge (If wanted)

Firstly rip some used paper into a bucket it needs to be nearly full. 

After you finish ripping, place some hot water in the bucket and wait overnight, when you leave it over night it should turn into pulp. 

Once it had turned into pulp place your art shirt on and start mixing it with the egg beater/ potato masher.

Keep doing that until it looks kinda sired up and it should look like soup.

Next when you have finished stirring grab the big container and place the pulp into the container.

After doing that get the bucket that had the pulp in it and fill with cold water. Fill the container a couple of times.

Get your Deckle, Mould and Screen and put them together. They are kinda like a puzzle. If it is on probably it should make a click. 

After you finished putting the set together your can dip the Set while holding onto it. 

Once you think you have scooped enough paper leave it to drip dry.

When that is happening get a cloth and take the deckle off of the Set. 

Grab the mould and the screen together and place it on the cloth Mesh 

Take the mould off.

Get the sponge and push out lots of water.

Once you think you have pushed out enough water take off the screen.

Finally Get a buddy to  help you take it to a great place to dry.

There you have finished, keep making paper until the container is nearly empty.

Here is all the paper my class made. We have made 106 cards.

                                         

Over all making paper was really fun, the process of making this has been really easy and quick. I enjoyed dipping my paper making set and scooping up all the paper. I had dislikes as well, like I didn't enjoy ripping the paper and mixing the paper so it looks like soup.

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Lets Travel Around New Zealand: Math Style

Hello blogging world. 
Since we have been back at school we haven't been in groups in maths instead we have been doing a set budget travel around New Zealand. We had a set budget of $500 per day which is quite a lot but when you are travelling it isn't as much as you think. We got to select a car, activates and Accommodations. The worst bit was trying to find out the cost of petrol. You also had to choose a plane and a ferry so that you could reach the bottom of New Zealand, from the South to the North. Now I know If I want to travel around Nz this would be the price.  This was so fun I would totally do this again. 

My favourite place if I went would be Christchurch because the activities there are really fun. I would only go on a holiday, not live there. As I said before Christchurch had some great activities and my favourite would be Horse trekking both along the beach and in other places  I have done it before and trust me, it is worth the money. My least favourite activity would be the Jazz and Blue Festival the only reason I picked it was because I didn't want to go to the NZ Rugby museum. 

Here is my work!

Overall I have really enjoyed this task. The best bit was getting to pick all the activity's because you got to pick what you want but sometimes they had a specific task for activity's so sometimes you couldn't pick the one you want. I learnt that if you want to fly over seas you would need a lot of money to go just around New Zealand. The hardest bit was trying to add all the petrol and the total price. Over all my total price was $4588.1, so if I wanted to travel all over New Zealand for 11 days I would need to save $4588.1. I thought I was going to spend $5000 instead I spent $4588.1, the price difference was $427.9

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